Kevin Bath PhD

Kevin Bath is an adjunct Associate Professor at Barnard and teaches a seminar course on Translational Models of Neuropsychiatric Disorders. His laboratory is focused on the impact of early life adversity on trajectories of brain and behavioral development and uses rodent models to test their hypotheses. Dr. Bath also directs the Rodent Behavioral Core facilities at the New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Kevin received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and then carried out postdoctoral training at Weill Cornell Medical College in the Department of Psychiatry. He joined the faculty of Brown University in 2011 and founded the Brown Rodent Behavioral Phenotyping Facility, a state-of-the-art center for translational study of animal models of human pathology. Dr. Bath’s program of research focuses on the impact of early life stress on trajectories of neural and behavioral development in mouse models, with a focus on cognitive and affective outcomes. Using this approach, Dr. Bath can manipulate both genetic and environmental risk factors of pathology to identify potential substrates underlying both risk and resilience. Through collaborative endeavors, his work hopes to generate and test predictions about possible factors contributing to pathological outcomes in human populations. Dr. Bath's work has been funded by the NIMH, Brain, and Behavior Research Foundation, and has been a member of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology for the past 10 years.